The commercial says you can win a free Craftmatic bed, but all you’re likely to win is a salesman worming his way into your home. An Inside Edition investigation revealed some shady high-pressure tactics by Craftmatic bed salesmen targeting the elderly. Typical sales tactics involve starting with a high price, $5,000 and then using a series of phony price drops to get the person to buy today. The salespeople say the bed is so great that it will solve acid reflux and heart disease! And at a seminar where you learn to be a better Craftmatic bed salesperson, a hidden camera showed instructor Carolyn Nilson talking about the lengths she would go to to close a deal, saying “I’ve done it all. Dug checks out of the garbage that they didn’t shred…reactivated credit cards, gone to the bank.” Most contests are just “lead-generation” opportunities for the businesses. Warn elderly friends and family about the sleazy tactics of the Crapmatic sales force.
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Hästens beds, FTW! Sure, they have ones which cost $$$$$, but they also have some more affordable ones which are still very comfortable.
@CumaeanSibyl:
Yeah, it’s never assholish when “Christians” drone on about their silly little superstitions and mythologies, or assume that everyone shares that nonsense.
You know what I love. I love pretentious liberal arts majors that think they come off as more educated and interesting by using obscure classical references in their usernames. Wow! You must be SO SO intelligent. Or a big douche.
how the crappin’ crap is this legal?
I worked for Craftmatic back in the 80′s. For one day. Even as a morally undeveloped teenager it was impossible to ignore the intensely predatory nature of this company. We were trained to say absolutely ANYTHING to the poor, elderly marks in order to get them to allow a Craftmatic salesdemon to visit them. The people I worked for were disgusting and reprehensible to such a degree that a druggie, dropout thief such as myself couldn’t tolerate them. Pretty impressive. Watch the movie “World of Sound” to get an idea of what kind of people these were. Much less sophisticated than the schmucks in the film, but just as ruthless and awful. Some companies deserve to be put out of business. These people deserve a good waterboarding on their own beds with the urine of every last of their victims.
Sorry, that film title is “Great World of Sound.”
@emjsea: I’m a SubGenius, and even I think you’re being a giant penis in this thread.
Believe it or not, not every mention of “praying” has to be met with derision and ridicule, just like not every mention of not believing in big-G God needs to be met with a conversion attempt. We’d all get along a lot better if we learned to keep our damn religion, or lack thereof, to ourselves, and just tolerate each other.
@emjsea: Hey, at least my liberal-arts education taught me that Christians aren’t the only people who pray.
It’s a neat thing, education. You might want to look into it sometime — oh no, am I proselytizing now?